Father and Son, Silliness
and Seriousness
Amidst the seriousness of world and local events there is our annual trip to Green Bay area so I can go with my daughter-in-law to a Green Bay Packer football game. My son and his wife have season tickets but since my son, a police officer in Green Bay, works the game my daughter-in-law takes a family member or friend with her each home game. I get the first pick and usually pick the first home game of the season when I know the weather will not be freezing as it was in a few games I have attended over the years.
Watching the game on TV at home is a much better way to watch the game. However, to experience the game there is nothing like being present at a game at Lambeau field in Green Bay with 78, 200 plus fans. Today’s game was especially enjoyable since Green Bay had the lead early and kept it and there was plenty to cheer about. Although the seats are high up in the end zone the excitement is felt everywhere in the stadium.
Maybe this is rationalization but I look at this annual journey to Green Bay as an experience of silliness, in the best sense of the word silliness. Some of us take violence, betrayal, killing seriously. Sometimes we need to lighten up and just do something that has little meaning in the serious world but lots of meaning to Green Bay Packer sports fan. I know football is a violent sport but it is a sport that can draw you in with lots of non-stop action.
One of my son’s sons is a quarterback on a very good 8th grade middle school football team. My wife and I hope to get up there to watch a game this fall. Watching his and team play lacks the excitement of the big crowd at Lambeau field but is up close and personal.
Tomorrow I go back to seriousness but silliness is good once in awhile.
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